A video game, produced in 2000 by introversion software, an english (see England) company. It is a game about hacking (see hack and hacker) in the year 2010. While not realistic to "real" hacking, it is similar to "movie" hacking.

It is a breakthrough in modern games on the PC, because it was made though so-called "bedroom programming".

I was playing Uplink and I got caught; so I had to hack the GCD (Global Criminal Database) to clear my record and get a new job.